Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
PLINY THE ELDERMost men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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